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Show December 16 , 1889 : 130 * * * commenced our portage at 7 a . m . * * * distance of portage 2,475 ( feet-started feetstarted ) 10.45 , at 12 M . came to head of long shoal which on last ( summer's summers ) trip ( July , 1889 ) was simply swift water . ( We AVe ) started our boats with only three ( men nien ) in to make them lighter . No . 1 went through the first ( three-fourths threefourths ) mile without grounding , but No . 2 and No . 3 both grounded on gravel and worked for some time to get off . ( Suc- Suc ) ceeding at last all hands got aboard , and we , started down the remaining ( three-fourths threefourths ) mile . In about 1,200 feet all boats got stuck on flat shelf of rock and after various efforts ( with Nvith ) two men in the water we got under way again at 3 p . m . Below this , 1Y2 miles of shoal . This work is very hard and fatiguing . ( These 'These These ) shoals seem to occur now where we had simply swift water before * * * . Jones , with the second Powell expedition , notes in his diary ( Compl . Exhibit 628 ) : , October 2 , 1871 : Started again at 1 p . m . and ran 11 miles . Ran five shallow rapids , on one of which the Emma stuck , the Nellie twice . ( Mile 158 to 168 above Lees Ferry . ) ( Octobers October ) , 1871 : Ran nine small rapids , most of them long with small waves and some quite shallow , * * * three shallow ran long rapids , ( get- get ) ting aground once . ( Mile 124 to 152 above Lees Ferry . ) |
